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District in Yerevan, Armenia

Nor Nork District

Nor Nork is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

Nor Nork District
Nor Nork District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nor Nork is one of the 12 districts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located at the eastern part of the city. It is bordered by the districts of Nork-Marash, Kentron and Kanaker-Zeytun from the west, Avan from the north and Erebuni from the south. Kotayk Province forms the eastern border of the district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nor Nork District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Yerevan State University

    Yerevan State University, also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the country.

    3.8 km · university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mother Armenia

    Mother Armenia is a female personification of Armenia. Her most public visual rendering is a monumental statue in Victory Park overlooking the capital city of Yerevan, Armenia.

    3.5 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National Library of Armenia

    The National Library of Armenia is a national public library in Yerevan, Armenia. It was founded in 1832 as part of the state gymnasium-school of Yerevan.

    3.7 km · national library, cultural heritage monument of the Republic of Armenia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yerevan Zoo

    The Yerevan Zoo, also known as the Zoological Park of Yerevan ), is a zoological park in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, that was founded in 1940 and is the only one in the country. It is located in the southeastern part of the city, at the foot of the hills, covering an area of 35 hectares.

    1.3 km · a zoo in Yerevan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Yerevan TV Tower

    Yerevan TV Tower is a 311.7-metre high lattice tower built in 1977 on Nork Hill near downtown Yerevan, Armenia. It is the tallest structure in Armenia, fourth-tallest tower in Western Asia, sixth-tallest free-standing lattice tower and thirty-eighth-tallest tower in the world.

    3.9 km · high lattice tower, Nork Hill, Yerevan, Armenia. · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Polytechnic University of Armenia

    The National Polytechnic University of Armenia is a technical university located in Yerevan, Armenia. Established as the Karl Marx Institute of Polytechnic in 1933, it provides educational and research programs in various fields of technology and science related to engineering.

    3.7 km · university · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Yerevan Botanical Garden

    The Yerevan Botanical Garden of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, is the body responsible for plant collections in Armenia. It is located in the Avan district at the north-eastern part of the capital Yerevan, occupying around 80 hectares of a semi-deserted area.

    1.6 km · botanical garden · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Victory Park

    Victory Park, is a public park located in the Kanaker-Zeytun District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

    3.7 km · park in Yerevan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Fondation Université Française en Arménie

    French University in Armenia is a French language higher education institution in Armenia. The university is located on Davit Anhaght street at the Kanakerr-Zeytun district of Yerevan.

    3 km · French university in Yerevan, Arnenia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Football Academy Stadium (Yerevan)

    The Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, officially the FFA Technical Center-Academy Stadium, commonly known as the Yerevan Football Academy Stadium or the Avan Academy Stadium, is an all-seater football stadium in Yerevan, Armenia. It is located in the northern Avan District of the city, within the Technical Center-Academy complex of the Football Federation of Armenia.

    2.7 km · stadium in Yerevan, Armenia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Nor Nork District

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 15 km · Shirak (LWN), 86 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 136 km
Stations
Yeritasardakan, 4 km
  • Gyumri → Nor Nork District
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · $10–14
  • Nakhchivan → Nor Nork District
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Ganja → Nor Nork District
    159 km · quickest by road, 8h 59m · $25–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nor Nork District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nor Nork District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
  • Get inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
  • Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
  • Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
  • Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.

From Wikivoyage: Armenia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    89 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    170 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    202 km
  5. 05
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    247 km

If you know how people move in Nor Nork District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nor Nork District

Nor Nork District is 5 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.